#584 Shirley Collins & Opinions on Japandroids & Ty Segall
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Of all the artists in the English folk revival, Shirley Collins was the most devoted to traditional song. After a nearly 40 year recording hiatus, she's finally released a new album. Shirley Collins joins hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot to discuss her career and her experiences traveling through America to collect field recordings with Alan Lomax. Plus, reviews of the new albums by Japandroids and Ty Segall.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together. |
| 0:06.0 | Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. |
| 0:27.0 | Shirley Collins combined folk traditions with innovative arrangements, paving the way for the English |
| 0:36.6 | folk revival. And after a nearly 40-year hiatus, she's back with a new album. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Greg Kott. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Jim De Regattis. |
| 0:44.1 | The influential folk singer Shirley Collins |
| 0:46.2 | talks to us about her career |
| 0:47.8 | and collecting field recordings with Alan Lomax. |
| 0:50.6 | Plus, we'll review the new albums from Japanroids and Ty Siegel. |
| 0:54.3 | That's all coming up on Sound Opinions. |
| 0:56.7 | This is Sound Opinions and later on in the show Jim we are going to bring the rock with record reviews |
| 1:07.1 | Two new albums from Japanroids and Thai seagull that's later in the show, but first we're going to talk to Shirley Collins. |
| 1:15.4 | She's best known in the UK, but she has become a major influence on a new generation of musicians. Come all you, young fellows, that follow the gun and beware of the gun and beware of, I stopped shooting by the light of the moon. |
| 1:42.0 | Shirley studied English folk music as a teenager, fell in love with those sounds and |
| 1:46.2 | started her recording career in 1958. |
| 1:49.4 | She since made more than 20 albums. In 1959 she also traveled throughout the South with |
| 1:55.7 | Alan Lomax, the master of field recordings, getting on tape often for the first |
| 2:00.4 | time, the likes of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Almeida Riddle, and Hobart Smith. |
| 2:05.0 | Yes, Jim, and you know, she was very deeply rooted in these rural folk traditions more so than some of her UK |
| 2:10.8 | contemporaries, but at the same time I think what really made her so |
| 2:13.8 | influential was the way she was innovating in her arrangements. She was |
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